Inventory of the Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, 1960

Collection Number 3924


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Democratic Party (N.C.)
Title
Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, 1960.
Call Number
3924
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 700 items (1.0 linear foot).
Abstract
Correspondence, memoranda, and records of Bert L. Bennett, North Carolina Democratic Party state executive committee chairman, and other staff members at campaign headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., during the election of 1960. Included are items relating to the gubernatorial campaign of Terry Sanford and a series of letters (263 items) from citizens of North Carolina to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, many of them dealing with the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1971
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, #3924, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Bennett, Bert L.
Democratic Party (N.C.)--History.
Governors--North Carolina--Election.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Religion.
Political campaigns--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Presidents--United States--Election--1960.
Religion and politics--United States--History--20th century.
Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998.
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Collection Overview

Correspondence, memoranda, and records of Bert L. Bennett, North Carolina Democratic Party state executive committee chairman, and other staff members at campaign headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., during the election of 1960. Included are items relating to the gubernatorial campaign of Terry Sanford and a series of letters (263 items) from citizens of North Carolina to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, many of them dealing with the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism.